By Barbara Lewis and Gilbert Reilhac BRUSSELS/STRASBOURG | Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:03pm EST BRUSSELS/STRASBOURG (Reuters) – European politicians are expected to vote through a resolution on Wednesday that nudges higher the bloc’s ambitions to deepen its carbon reduction, ahead of climate change talks this month in Durban, a European Parliament source said. The European […]

By Michael Avok LINCOLN, Neb | Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:43am EST LINCOLN, Neb (Reuters) – Nebraska and TransCanada Corp agreed on Monday to find a new route for the stalled Keystone XL pipeline that would steer clear of environmentally sensitive lands in the state. Under pressure from green groups, the U.S. State Department last […]

By Henry Foy and Matthias Williams MUMBAI | Mon Nov 14, 2011 7:05am EST MUMBAI (Reuters) – A new and broader climate deal is out of reach for now and instead nations need to focus on how to replace the ailing Kyoto Protocol before 2020, Britain’s minister of state for energy and climate change said […]

By Brian Ellsworth and Guillermo Parra-Bernal Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:34pm EST (Reuters) – Oil giant Chevron halted drilling of a well off the coast of Brazil as it looks into the possible causes of an oil spill in the region. Chevron said in a statement e-mailed on Saturday that an oil sheen had appeared […]